Homestead Bread Baking Secrets
Bread, the staff of life, must have been one of the earliest forms of cooked food. To crush the seeds of plants, mix the meal with water, and bake the dough on a flat stone before a fire, is the simplest modes of cookery, and one of the best. A hollow in a rock was the first mortar; two stones rubbed together the first mill.
But when bread is made in larger loaves, it is more pleasant to eat, if not more digestible, to be lighter - that is, of a spongey texture, with small air-cells interspersed in its substance. This may be accomplished in several ways. Fermentation, which may be rapidly produced by yeast, causes the formation of carbonic acid gas, which swells up the whole mass of moistened flour. or the mixture of an acid and alkali in the dough will produce very rapidly the same results. Aerated bread is made of flour or meal moistened with water, which holds a large quantity of carbonic acid gas in solution.
The bread of bakers is generally raised too much, destroying its substance and sweetness, and making it dry and chippy to the taste. It is also often made of inferior or damaged flour, doctored with alum, white vitrol, etc. The brown bread of the bakers often seems made of refuse flour and bran, and is very inferior to good homemade bread made of whole wheat - the entire meal without separation.
Bread made of rather coarse eal is sweeter than the finer. Some of the aroma of the wheat escapes in the crush and heat of the mill-stones. The air of the mill is full of it, and this is so much lost to the bread.
The bread which I strongly recommend is that made from unbolted flour, or whole meal. The mass of bread is increased one-fifth, and the price lowered, between the difference of the price of brans flour, or as fodder for cattle. It is only in more modern times he sifted flour has been known and has been used by the poor, to imitate the luxury of the wealthy, at the expense of their health. Certain it is, that where whole meal is used as bread, the population have better digestive organs than where it is not. Chemistry has demonstrated that th wasted bran is richer in nutritive elements than the finest flour. The entire grain as nature made it is sweetest, and most healthy.
I very strongly recommend to every family to have a hand mill and grind their own wheat. I have one in use two years, which seems as good as ever. Good mills can be helpful homestead products.
About the Author
Hello, my name is Katrina and my husband and I live off-the-grid. I am the seventh generation to live on my family's homestead. There is no phone, power, sewer, garbage or other services available at our 117 acre ranch. And there never will be.
We use solar, hydro and wind. We bake, garden and dehydrate. It is a creative way of life. Abundant and fulfilling.
If you feel the call to return to basics, and want to learn more about the homestead lifestyle, then our homestead sites are for you. You will discover little known secrets of every aspect of homesteading, that you never dreamed existed.
We are dedicated to helping you succeed in every homestead endeavor you make. Whether you want to bake a loaf of fresh homemade bread or if your looking for a homeschool program that works. We'll have something to help you out.
I have spent my whole life homesteading. And so did my mother. And so did her mother, etc. In fact, my native-american grandmother was so sufficient during the great-depression that she wasn't even aware that is was happening. Wouldn't it be great to have that kind of security? Especially with today's state of affairs.
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Which songs get stuck in your head?
Here are some of mine -
Hyperviolet - Pig Destroyer
Does anybody know what time it is? - Chicago
Spellbound - Dimmu Borgir
Matando Geuros - Brujeria
Kill from the heart - The D-cks
Dirty little secret - All American Rejects
Somebody told me - The Killers
Father Baker's - Deicide
Happy Hannikaust - Vaginal Jesus
There's usually a lot of correlation with likability and how easy the tunes are to remember and such.
Tubthumping by Chumbawamba!
That song is a drug!
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